The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-07-01
Wisconsin Items.

Wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations; Wheat-No. 2, ns6@71 &c.
Corn-No 3, 3615@35Ac. Oats No. 2, Doc.
Rye-No. ], SIC. Barley-No 2, SIC.
The new chapel at the convent of the
Sisters of Notre Dame at Green Bay is
about completed.
Seven miles of fences were destroyed bv
recent fires in Kewaunee County.
The Board of Supervisors of Lincoln
County has voted $500 for soldiers monu-
ment The sum will probably be increased
by private subscriptions to 81, 500
1t is expected that not more than half
crop will be harvested in Grant County on
account of drought.
Martin Klrschner, aged slxty-fye wears.
was oyerpoWered by the heat in Water
town few days ago, and died in a short
time.
The flooding dam on o. Neill creek, known
as Ovens dam, at NeilIsville, Clark Coun-
ty, went out the other days causing great
damage by leaving logs laid up.
A large bear is raiding the stock pens of
the farmers in the town of Sevastopol,
Door County.
Wauppn has made proposition to the
Park Hotel and eight cottages and forty
acres of land for the proposed veterans
home.
Bishop Katzer received from Rome the
other day official notification that j. Ell. NJ.
Wigman, of Green Bay, had been made a
Knight of the Order of st. Gregory the
Great for his zeal and services to the
church.
Tramps in Ashland are tied to ball and
chain and worked on the streets
Mrs. Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee,
having decided to accept the conditions of
her late husbands will, it was admitted to
probate a few days ago, and letters were
issued to her son, under bond for 100000.
w, w. Clarke's store at Milton, Rock
County, was robbed of 800 worth Of Jew
elry the other night.
Mrs. Maria Van Slyde Dodson, a resi-
dent of Madison, and avictim of the opium
habit, jumped from the window of a pri-
waite hospital in Philadelphia recently and
was killed.
Peterson & Hess, dry goods dealers at
Eau Glare, failed Monday, owing S. 1000.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Hardell, of Summit,
Waukesha County, celebrated the fiftieth
anniversary of their residence on the same
farm few days ago. Over two hundred
guests partooke of the sumptuous dinner
prepared by the aged hostess
A family at Ashland was camping out
under a tent near the ore-docks recently.
having been unable to secure house to
live in.
For the first time in several years the
beech trees in the vicinity of Manitowoc
are loaded with nuts.
Another deposit of iron ore has been
discovered in Pepin County, at Ella, ten
miles south OF Durand. Sheriff Fuller has
control of the land by lease
The cut-worms are injuring the early
set tobacco in the vicinity of Stoughton.
One grower says that of a patch of
five acres on his farm but one acre is
growing.
The forty first annual council of the
Episcopal Diocese of Wisconsin was held
recently in Milwaukee.
John Brady, who shot dead Dan Sullivan
in Trempealeau County last July for try
ing to steal away Brady's daughter, thir-
teen years old, was acquitted of murder
recently. Sullivan had taken the girl
from her home once before, but her father
recovered control of her, and sent wofd to
Sullivan to keep away from his premises.
The latter swore he would have the girl
or Brady's life, and the next time he was
caught lurking about the farm Brady shot
him.
The Loyal Legion, which met at Green
Lake recently, proposes to see to it that
no Union soldier is this land becomes a
charge upon it as pauper, and will plead
and work for such change in the pension
q fh0 n
suit
]. d. Day, a Michigan mining expert
who has been visiting Wilson, st. Croix
County, during the past few days, saws
the indications for iron ore there in large
quantities and excellent quality are good
The showing for the amount developing
done is encouraging. He advises deeper
prospecting and the use of the diamond
drill
Christian Gilbertson, leweler of Madj-
son. committed suicide Monday by cutting
his throat.
Burglars took $500 from the safe in Wal.
lace & Hammond's hardware store at Eau
Claire the other night.
DR.. F. s. Reynolds, of Hartford. will go
to Alaska with his family. He will be &C.
compamed by the families of A K De-
laney and William Fleming.
A wholesale raid was made The other
night on the Bailey HcTse, in Milwaukee,
by sneak thieves. dozen or more guests
at the place suffering losses of from $25 to
SloO. Landlord Hamlin was among the
victims, his watch, considerable money
and new suit Of clothes having been
taken,